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Okay, I'll bite.
I'm working on my 56th year as a machinist. (today I'm refereed to as an "Instrument Maker". (bigger title, more money) To date I've had a shot at everything from the tiniest of scientific apparatus to a part that topped 104 tonnes. (and a few jobs that I'm prohibited from mentioning) Only trade I've ever had, and I've never been unemployed.
Priest. Father Grab A. Dollar, and part time Chip & Dale Dancer[;)][^] The girls call me stumpy.[V][:D]
I went to work at 12 picking apples at a farm down the lane from us. At 16, I went to work for an HVAC company. Worked part time as a Paramedic for Memorial Hospital of Burlington county for two years, and a ambulance company, called Safecare. I finally quit after seeing too many children die. It would eat me up every night. I did pediatric transports for the ambulance company. I opened a sheet metal business when I was 25 and a HVAC business. Been doing this for 37 years now. I sold the sheet metal business about two years ago to a friend, because I was working myself into the ground. It started to effect my marriage and health to the point where I was just not myself anymore. I love what I do and wouldn't want to do anything else. If I had to do it all over again, I would have loved to been a trauma nurse. I met my wife Donna, working for the Ambulance company. We always tell everyone that, we met by an accident[:D]
Sure nothing as exciting as what all you guys have done that's for sure.
Several jobs from high school...US Census and then mainly in education - middle school and community college.
Guess you could say I was an Admin Asst (mainly listener, counselor, MOM) to 42 full-time faculty, 52 part-time faculty, and close to 15 support staff at the community college. Close to the bottom of the rank like the janitors.
Owned a construction company building industrial buildings thru out the Chicago area back when things were good. Customers included W.W. Granger, Morton Thyicol, Allied Tube & Conduit and many heavy crane designed billings. We'll NEVER see that economy again[xx(]
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I'm working on my 56th year as a machinist. (today I'm refereed to as an "Instrument Maker". (bigger title, more money) To date I've had a shot at everything from the tiniest of scientific apparatus to a part that topped 104 tonnes. (and a few jobs that I'm prohibited from mentioning) Only trade I've ever had, and I've never been unemployed.
Three years in a nursery in high school,small shop,construction,mechanic.
I went to work at 12 picking apples at a farm down the lane from us. At 16, I went to work for an HVAC company. Worked part time as a Paramedic for Memorial Hospital of Burlington county for two years, and a ambulance company, called Safecare. I finally quit after seeing too many children die. It would eat me up every night. I did pediatric transports for the ambulance company. I opened a sheet metal business when I was 25 and a HVAC business. Been doing this for 37 years now. I sold the sheet metal business about two years ago to a friend, because I was working myself into the ground. It started to effect my marriage and health to the point where I was just not myself anymore. I love what I do and wouldn't want to do anything else. If I had to do it all over again, I would have loved to been a trauma nurse. I met my wife Donna, working for the Ambulance company. We always tell everyone that, we met by an accident[:D]
Several jobs from high school...US Census and then mainly in education - middle school and community college.
Guess you could say I was an Admin Asst (mainly listener, counselor, MOM) to 42 full-time faculty, 52 part-time faculty, and close to 15 support staff at the community college. Close to the bottom of the rank like the janitors.